Bottle-washer



F. C. FECKLEY. BOTTLE WASHER. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 13. ms. 1

Patented Oct. 28,1919.

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FBONA C. FECKLEY, 01E DELTA, IOWA.

BOTTLE-WASHER.

1,319,859, Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct, 28, 1919,

Application filed. December 13, 1918. Serial No. 266,599.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRONA G. FECKLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Delta, in the county of Keokuk and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Washers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to brushing. and scrubbing, and more especially to bottle washers; and the object of the same is to produce a kitchen tool by means of which a sponge or rag can be grasped and passed into the mouth of a bottle so that the latter can be washed with ease.

A striking feature of the invention is that most of the tool is made of two strands of wire bent into peculiar form, with a runner having two eyes traveling thereon for the purposes set forth below.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of this device without the rag or washer, and

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the rag held therein.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a handle which is by preference cylindrical and of wood although any other appropriate material would answer, while the remainder of the device is ofv metal. Two pieces of wire are bent at their centers into eyes 2, below which the four strands of the pieces are twisted upon each other and passed through the handle 1, beneathwhich they are shown herein as constituting the shank 3. At the lower end of the latter they are bent outward or turned out so as to form loops 4.

Below the loops the wires or rather thestrands thereof cross each other at the point 5, and below that point in turn they constitute fingers 6 which are normally divergent as seen in Fig. 1 the tips of the fingers being preferably inturned as indicated at 7 so as to grasp a rag or sponge 8. A second wire element is what I call the runner. It is made up of a straight stretch of wire 10 having at its upper end a small eye 11 of a size to travel upon the shank between the loops 4 and the lower end of the handle, and at its I copies ot thin patent may be obtained for lower end a larger eye 12 of such size that it may be forced over the 100p and down upon the fingers 6. When this runner is moved upward as shown in Fig. 1, the fingers diverge under their normal tendency. When it is moved downward, the eye 12 causes the fingers to contract upon the sponge 8 in a manner which will be clear. If the sponge or other washing implement is so large that the runner is not needed, it may be forced upward between the tips 7 of the fingers and the runner not used at all. The small eye 11 at the upper end of the runner prevents it from becoming displaced or moved so far down on the fingers that it will interfere with the sponge.

The use of this device is too well understood to need elaboration. It may be inserted into a bottle to wash the same, although it is capable of other uses.

The foregoing description and the drawings have reference to what is to be considered the preferred or approved form of my invention. It is to be understood that I may make such changes in construction and arrangement and combination of parts, materials, dimensions, et cetera, as may prove expedient and fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a bottle washer, the combination with a shank consisting of a plurality of wires twisted together, the same being formed into abutments at the lower end of the shank and then extended into normally diverging fingers inturned at their tips, of a runner comprising a straight stretch of wire having at one end a small eye'of a size to move on said shank but too small to pass over said abutment, and at its other end a larger eye embracing said fingers, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRONA C. FECKLEY.

Witnesses: 7

D. W. HAMILTON, 'OL o Gross.

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